October 2023 – Inside The Cover

My Reading Thoughts for September ’23

I can’t believe we are at the end of September already!!! Where is 2023 going! It has been a wonderful year full of books, and bookish events so far. This month I decided to read books, which I felt were inspired by Autumn, though there were some exceptions!! I didn’t manage to read a lot of book, because the first book I read was a large one, but it was an amazing book, and it will be in my top ten at the end of the year for sure, it has become a firm new all time favourite. Without further ado lets have a look at the books I did read!

No of books read: 5

My favourite reads were:

The Bone Season Anniversary Edition by Samantha Shannon
Slam Dunk Volume One by Takehiko Inoue
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna

Books that made me think:

A Dowry of Blood by S.T Gibson
The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon

Unusual Activity for me:

Letting my crochet get in the way of reading! LOL

My overall favourite book was:

The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon

I absolutely adored The Bone Season, I can highly recommend to this, especially to anyone who loves dystopian fiction, click on the link below to read more about this book.

Review: The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon

I finally also got to read The Secret Society of Irregular Witches, which my daughter bought me for Christmas, my daughter definitely has good taste! If you liked The House on the Cerulean Sea, you should pop this book on your TBR.

Talking of my daughter, back in August we went to watch The Slam Dunk movie together at the cinema, and had a blast viewing this, and from that I decided to buy the manga. I am not a sporty person, but you really don’t need to be, this manga is fab, and I look forward to reading more of it soon!

Although I gave it four stars, and I really enjoyed the time I spent with it, my most surprising read was A Dowry of Blood, yes I would recommend it to my fellow readers, but it was not the book, I thought it would be! It took a few chapters to get into the writing style. I would imagine there would be a lot of trigger warnings with this book, and at times, it did make me feel a little sad, and uneasy. I expected it to be full of a lot more vampire activity, and it went off on a completely different road to which I expected.

In September I purchased: